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Environmental campaigners say that shoppers use them for just 20 minutes on average but they take up to 1,000 years to degrade.

The United Nations on Monday launched a week-long global environment conference aimed at tackling challenges from poaching to marine pollution and boosting the green economy.

Scientists from theSeventh Continentgroup revealed that plastic waste covers 1,000 km x 2,000 km of the Pacific and Indian oceans - a "seventh continent" of plastic not marked on any maps, slightly off regular sea-trade roads but only 1,000 km away from the French Caribbean.